>>29879>Only after two Jaune arcs What are you talking about? He had 1 arc, the Jaundice episode and a small subplot of him being rejected by Weiss in V2, which was also a Pyrrha subplot, none of those are comparable to the drama we get with Blake being revealed as
a faunus and ex-WF member or in Volume 1 when Weiss was given a reality check on her wanting to be Team Leader, or Yang getting Blake to stop burning the candle at both ends while sharing her and Ruby's backstory.
>in a way that literally does nothing but confirm the previous model-student empath characterizationIncorrect. Pyrrha is shown to have a limit to this as well, and is also revealed to be indecisive on a personal level, being unable to openly speak of her crush on Jaune.
>seem more like a plot convenience It doesn't, it's just a subversion of the typical "girl students crush on the top-student of the school" sort of thing we got with Sasuke.
>no justification other than Jaune being the first guy to walk up to her Yeah this is why I say you didn't watch or didn't pay attention. Pyrrha outright states that she liked Jaune because he didn't know who she was and so didn't treat her with the reverence others did. This is also implicitly shown with scenes as early as Initiation, when she gets excited when he has no idea who she is. Is it a tad shallow a reason? Sure, but that's a school crush, not unrealistic or a plot convenience. Hell it's not even that necessary to the plot, its characterization material.
>the standard high-school plot about speaking true and turning the other cheek? That's so vague as to be meaningless. You can say that about almost any story, highschool or not. And also no. Part of the story is NOT turning the other cheek and standing up for yourself (at least with Jaune) and other parts include nuance, reconciliation, understanding opposite sides of a conflict etc.
This isn't a deep novel, and it's not trying to be so your vaguery isn't a criticism so much as a "i don't liek dis"
>Jaundince arc could have been about Ruby and it would only shuffle around minor characterization. No it couldn't. Ruby is a prodigy, she's shown from the start to be good at fighting, and while shy, she's shown no qualms about expressing her opinion in the face of bossy people or bullies.
>he barely interacts with Ruby after the first few episodes. You don't need to constantly interact to be narrative foils. Cinder is also a foil to Jaune and Ruby, they don't constantly interact or need to, that's not how Foils work. Also you're straight up fucking incorrect. Jaune interacts with Ruby pretty much every episode of Volume 1 except the Ruby and Weiss centric episode (Badge and Burden) and the last episode where Team RWBY go search for Blake and the White Fang plot begins to kick off.
In Volume 2 the focus is more on Yang, Blake and the White Fang subplot, and so Jaune interacts with Ruby less, but then the first person she calls in the finale is Jaune and the Dance has a multitude of subplots and character interactions. Volume 3 has the least amount but then Volume 4 is literally Jaune and Ruby paired up for the entire RNJR story arc.
>It should have been Jaune smh Oh you're one of
those. No it shouldn't have. Not only does it make no sense for his character to do what Pyrrha did (deciding on a pointless suicide mission because "muh destiny") but if Jaune died Pyrrha would have likely died anyway trying to avenge him.
>He does anyway.Let me repeat for the illiterate: Heroism isn't
ONLY about slaying monsters.
Jaune uses his semblance a lot in a supportive role, his main heroism comes from doing the small but important things like helping children. He isn't suddenly chad mcthundercock one-shotting all the villains.
>Adam was always written as a generic terrorist badguy. No, he wasn't. Prior to the incel shite he was fairly obvious an extremist, dedicated to his cause. He was literally going to LEAVE Vale entirely prior to Cinder bringing him under heel. Yes his characterization wasn't complete, (because Monty fucking died) but that's what was written up to that point. And then suddenly he becomes this raging man-child suddenly.
>he writers pulled some strings at the end of V6 Again, you haven't paid attention then. Adam's characterization began going off the rails with V4/5. V6 was just the writers putting him down like a fucking animal and permanently cutting off a number of plotthreads that they never fucking addressed; Schnee mistreatment of the Faunus for example. Weiss or Winter never even face Adam, and never face the White Fang again after Beacon. The writing for V4-6 was in part hurt by Monty's death but also because RT was a fucking ghoul and people like Gray Haddock and Arryn fucked over the writing team by doing shit like rerouting funding, or telling the animators to add scenes that weren't in the script.
>GoodAh, so when it's 'le gay girl' self inserting that's good? Nice double standard
>They wouldn't have written a non-cishet main character otherwise >would have totally gone through with having none of the four heroines be in a genuine relationship ever1) cishet is made up liberal terminology, just use gay/lesbian/bi like a normal person, clanker.
2) Good, it would be better that relationships NOT be a focus unless it has narrative or plot significance.
>even if catpiss was literally the worst option. <I'd rather eat shit than have actual meaningful relationships or just not have arbitrary love dramas out of a soapbox. >Self-inselting is good and immersive, when it adds to the overall characterization without being outright contradictory. Maybe, but that isn't fucking Blake. It's not immersive, it's jarring and completely changes Blake's character from a rebel seeking to change the world without resorting to bloodshed, into this pathetic whiny bitch, who later just becomes Yang's suck-up and shoulder-devil, and yet the story keeps telling you "she's good!"
Also LMAO at the "contrived romantic interest" when Blake has fucking FOUR confirmed romantic interests through the story; Adam, Sun, Ilia and Yang and they're all fucking obsessed with her.
>it leads to contrived romantic interest and a narratively disposable high-school arc Quit whining about made up shit. It's not even a high-school. People join at 18, it's a college more than anything. And it isn't narratively disposable, it's set up. We are introduced to the next generation, they start off small, controlled settings, small problems. Then things become bigger. Hell the most typical school drama is barely a part of the story throughout V1-3 Most schools do not have "team leaders". But I digress.
>Don't pretend like the others aren't contemptible libs I'm not, but at least Ruby, Jaune, Cinder or Weiss aren't shilling literal liberal ideology nearly verbatim or fucking embodying virtue-signalling.
>heavily implied the headmasters exercise direct control over huntsmen. Qrow explicitly states that this is not the case in Volume 5, when he goes looking for Huntsmen. Huntsmen are not police nor do they act as police, they are primarily anti-Grimm defence. They do stop crime, but that's not endemic to police; a militia will do the same thing.
>Huntsmen in general are shown to take in citizens for questioning In regards to a fucking terrorist attack or blatant robbery. See the above.
>possess resources only a real-world police-force or military would have, like armoured airships Where did you get armored? LMAO. Bullheads are common transport for civilians within the story. Again you're just making shit up. The only resource they have available to them that isn't available to the average person (Aura is present in all people and even animals. Dust is literally sold and used in near EVERYTHING on Remnant) is their Huntsman ID and access to missions, which makes sense; the average person can't safely do those.
>so they could be anywhere in between mercenaries and the Gestapo. Or we can go by what we actually see, wherein most Huntsmen and Huntresses are free-agents taking missions that they want to take and rejecting those they do not and having no obligation to any one kingdom or person, this is specifically how their role is structured, to be essentially international and only beholden to uphold basic laws (so they can't just be mercenaries killing regular people for money).
>Why is killing cops bad again? Ok internet toughguy
>This doesn't mean they raided every village At this point I am genuinely concerned with your reading comprehension. I literally addressed this.
>If the Branwen tribe was to lay claim on a territory, they would first need establish a monopoly on violence, for example by threatening to loot and pillage every village opposing them That doesn't change the fact that this creates fear and hatred, attracting the Grimm, or it exploiting ordinary working people that can't live in a city or afford to hire a Huntsman. My point stands; Raven is a fucking
>They are effectively exercising violence over a far greater territory than they would be able to holdBullshit and irrelevant. She's the fucking Spring Maiden, she can literally call down a thunderstorm and strike people precisely with lightning. For all intents and purposes to the ordinary layman she is a god within a large radius of her encampment. And yet she does what Salem did when she attempted to act as a goddess and strives to force people under her will
>Being nomadic also doesn't mean they're vagabonds. I never claimed that. That also doesn't change the fact that they ARE vagabonds; this is a Nonsequitur.
>They have a vested interest in keeping out major Grimm populations Except they provably don't. Raven was in the area when The Nuckelavee first began terrorizing Mistral and until RNJR put it down was happy to let it roam around and kill hundreds of men. To go back to Huntsmen BTW; that is a perfect example of why they exist; we see the Nuck's cave, littered with dozens of weapons of people that failed to kill it, because like Ren's dad, they weren't Huntsmen.
>bandits and unregistered mercenaries are effectively serving the role of huntsmen from that point onward. LOL no, we never see this in V6.
>she is progressive in relation to the landed gentry of Mistral No she isn't. Read a fucking book and stop being a radlib. This is the same shit as those retards that claim Mexican Cartels are "progressive" because they're anti-authoritarian; such a first-world take that it's ridiculous.
>compradorYou have brainworms and clearly read too much shitty fanfiction. Mistral was literally a slaver country a century before this and lost a war to Vale, which abolished monarchist institutions including its own, as the King of Vale abdicated after defeating Mantle and Mistral.
>also because they could What a meaningless statement. Bolsheviks never endorsed terrorizing or looting ordinary people. The heists that Stalin took part in or other acts of terror were directed at the government and government institutions of Czarist Russia.
>They would no doubt support bandits over a reactionary state <Mistral is now a reactionary stateThis is why liberals should be beaten over the head with the Das Kapital and Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism; you don't even know what REACTIONARY means. Reactionary means to use government policy to force things to go back to a previous socio-economic state. The terms are relative to what the past and present of any given country is. A reactionary government in Mistral would be one trying to return to slavery and racist policies, except we don't see that.
The Makhnovites were leftist anarchists, and not JUST bandits. They were still crushed afterwards because they started to lash out and attack the Bolsheviks after their main target fled West, and essentially allowed their forces to loot and kill the local populace with impunity. The only reason the Bolsheviks didn't stop them sooner was because the Russian Civil War involved so many different groups and foreign invaders that the Bolsheviks didn't have time or resources to waste on dealing with them and used their opposition to Denikin. The Bolsheviks did not make alliances with Basmachi or other straight up reactionary bandits however, or support them in any way.
>i agree with most RWBY criticism by Critter and pals Judgemental Critter is only half-right SOMETIMES and other "critics" are usually completely wrong. Stop taking your cues from youtube ECelebs.
>favorites <CoeurHAHAHA I knew it! To be fair most of his fics start off really well, they just always derail and either have mid endings or end in ways that drive people nuts. Second Torch is one of his better works, partly because it's an older one.
the Ao3 link isn't just AU but very OOC. I know this fic and it's the equivalent of every edgelord!Naruto gay fanfic.